India vs Australia World Cup 2023: India defeated Australia by 6 wickets in its first match in the World Cup 2023. Australia gave a target of 200 runs in the match played in Chennai. In response, India achieved the target by losing 4 wickets. Captain Pat Cummins has reacted to Australia’s defeat. He told where the match was lacking. Cummins believes that if his team had scored about 50 more runs, the result could have been different.
Pat Cummins, reacting to Australia’s defeat, said, “We fell short by about 50 runs.” We tried our best to save the match. India has a very good bowling attack. His biggest strength is his spinners. We had only spinners. Our spinners had only 20 overs. But if a few more runs had been scored, the result could have been different.
Virat Kohli had missed a catch during the match. Cummins said about the catch, “I have forgotten this thing.” If the Indian team had lost 4 wickets at the score of 10 runs, it would have been no less than a dream. Cummins praised Hazlewood. He said that Hazlewood has class in bowling.
Team India had all out Australia on the score of just 199 runs in Chennai. Steve Smith scored the most runs for the team. He scored 46 runs in 71 balls. David Warner scored 41 runs. During this, Ravindra Jadeja took 3 wickets for India. Kuldeep Yadav took 2 wickets. Jasprit Bumrah also took 2 wickets. Mohammed Siraj, Hardik Pandya and Ravichandran Ashwin got one wicket each.
India won the match after losing 4 wickets in 41.2 overs. Virat Kohli played an important inning of 85 runs. Whereas KL Rahul scored unbeaten 97 runs in 115 balls. Rahul hit 8 fours and 2 sixes.